An interesting benchmark for baby boomers growing old is the movie stars
who made the movies we grew up with. Sometimes it happens when you are
watching a movie made in the sixties or seventies and you realize how
young everybody looks. Sometimes it's when you see one of those leading
men or women today as septuagenarians.Even if we don't really feel all
that old in other aspects of our life, for some reason seeing the stars
of stage and screen - people who we always admired for their photogenic
appearance and on screen coolness - living through their own aging
process makes ours feel a little more noticeable.Of course, making a
career out of impressing others how good looking you are - not to mention
your acting talents of course - has a big downside. Few people remain
beautiful forever. That's why, for the rest of us, getting older is just
part of the process of living.In fact, depending on what you do, or did,
for a living, being a part of the aging baby boomer generation can have
its benefits. After all, we are the can-do generation. We staked our
generational reputation on changing things, and making things happen.
It's how we grew up, and it still persists today.Sometimes seeing icons
like Redford or Streisand can be a little sobering, particularly when you
remember them in their heyday. But then seeing guys like Gates or Jobs
makes you realize what our generation was able to accomplish. Few people
have achieved the success of any of these people, but baby boomers are
proud of their accomplishments nevertheless.It's important for Boomers
not to lose that sense of accomplishment. We still have a lot of life to
live and a long way to go. More and more boomers are realizing that even
if they could retire - in other words if the Great Recession hadn't come
along and cleaned out their retirement accounts - they probably wouldn't.
There's still too much to do, too many things to see, too many mountains
to climb and too many challenges to conquer.Boomers are the generation
that coined the term "couch potato" and we are also the generation that
unilaterally decided that being a couch potato is an unacceptable past
time. Boomers love to get out and about. Boomers want to make things
happen.That's why so many boomers are turning their personal passions
into personal businesses. They get to do what they love to do, and then
to make money doing it. For a lot of people today, it doesn't get any
better than that.Many experts agree that movement is a fundamental part
of living a long life. The more active you are, the healthier you stay.
Sitting around all day pondering all of the years gone by is a sure way
to shorten the number of years to come.It's time to join the boomer
party. Regardless of where you are in your career - whether you're
winding it down, or finished with it altogether - it's time to start a
new one. Find something you love and make it happen. Even if you're an
aging movie star, you still have plenty of time left.
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